Uh oh. In the latest election drama, Tory candidate for North West Essex and business secretary Kemi Badenoch has taken aim at Labour’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell. The lefty spinner has a well-documented history of Brexit-bashing and Badenoch, it seems, has had enough.
Urging readers of the Daily Mail to ignore Brexit sceptics and vote for the Conservatives ‘to stop us going back to square one’, the minister writes in the newspaper today that voting Labour means ‘enabling a strengthened Starmer to unpick Brexit’. Slamming Tony Blair’s former spokesman, Badenoch tore into Campbell’s claims about what leaving the EU means for Britain. From securing private investment to growing the economy to exporting goods to signing trade deals, the business secretary praised what she claims are the proven benefits of having left the EU.
Taking to the Mail’s pages, Badenoch warned voters against letting ‘Remoaners like Campbell fool you’ that the Tories hadn’t delivered on Brexit, fuming:
One of my golden rules of politics is to listen carefully to Alastair Campbell – and then do the opposite.
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